At a time when Islamophobia is at a peak, what with several barbaric terror attacks in various parts of the world being claimed responsibility by Islamic extremist groups, Shabana Azmi has dared to play the distraught mother of a young Pakistani man accused of and incarcerated for terrorism in Britain in the BBC One series Capital. It's a feisty role. And Shabana has a terrific time sinking her teeth into the meaty part of a Pakistani matriarch trying to hold her family together in London in a climate of rapidly growing distrust hostility and violence. I saw an episode where Shabana playing the Pakistani matriarch with her family convinces a human-rights lawyer to take up her son's case. Shabana is completely in-control of the situation in the plot and she speaks her lines without any accent. Says Shabana, "Capital is based on journalist-author John Lanchester's book of the same title.
- 12/14/2015
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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